Article
The costs of human inbreeding and their implications for variations at the DNA level.
Nature genetics - 1 Oct 1994
Bittles A H, Neel J V
Abstract excerpt
An analysis of the world literature on the children of first cousin marriages reveals that the depression of survival in offspring followed from birth (including late miscarriages; at about six months gestation or later) to a median age of 10 years is constant (4.4% +/- 4.6) across a wide range o...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Consanguinity
- DNA
- Ethnicity
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Genes, Lethal
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Genetic Variation